The table depicts the percentage of needy people in Australia in 1990, categorizing/presenting them based on different family structures. Overall, families consisting of single parents or single adults with no children are more likely to encounter poverty than those of couples with children or couples without children.
There was a 21% probability that people living in sole-parent families suffered economic difficulties, almost doubling the data for all households, which was 11%.
Families comprising single adults without children also had a high-level poverty rate of 19%, with a total number of 359,000 destitute people, which is more than the former family type at 232,000 deprived people. However, the situation became better if the family was composed of a couple, such as couples with children or without children, whose poverty rates are 12% and 7%, respectively.
In addition, the likelihood of aged people becoming impoverished was lower than other groups. Single-aged families accounted for a 6% poverty rate, which is over half of the average poverty line at 11%, and aged couple family structures got a 4% poverty rate, being under half of the average poverty line.
